Recognition of contemporary human
incarnation is the most crucial point since we can worship God directly through
contemporary human incarnation only. The
recognition is to be done by examining various messages of divine knowledge
rendered by the spiritual preachers and through the true and excellent
spiritual knowledge only, you have to recognize the contemporary human
incarnation. If you want to give gold
medal to the top most meritorious student in the class, you have to examine the
answer scripts written by all the students of the class and depending on the
highest marks, you have to select the gold medalist.
Similarly, you have to examine the messages
of all the preachers and then recognize the incarnation through the merit of
the message. You should not fix some
student as the gold medalist in the beginning itself and then allot highest
marks to his answer script. Today,
people are doing exactly the same mistake.
They enquire and examine the preacher through various other aspects and
decide some preacher as the incarnation and then treat his knowledge as the
true knowledge. Veda says that true
(Satyam Jnanam) and excellent (Prajnanam) spiritual knowledge alone is the real
identification of God. Therefore, you
have to examine the knowledge first and not the preacher. While you are examining the answer scripts of
the students, you are unaware of any student.
You are giving highest marks simply based on the merit of the answer
without knowing the student of that script.
You are not aware of the personal merits and personal defects of the
student while giving the highest marks to a particular script. You are not judging the student by his
character and conduct. The knowledge of
the student alone is relevant basis for giving the gold medal. Similarly, the true and excellent spiritual
knowledge alone is the deciding factor because you are going to get the right
direction in your spiritual journey through the true knowledge only. The examination of Gita gives
the identification of God. You are
concerned only about Gita since it gives the right direction for your spiritual
uplift. Based on this only, you should
conclude that the Author of Gita must be God.
You are not concerned about the merits and defects of the Author of
Gita, which are not relevant to your spiritual progress. He might have stolen butter or might have
danced with girls since those factors are not going to help you in any way in
your spiritual journey.
The advice given
by Him to you alone is relevant to you.
There may be so many unknown reasons for His behavior about which, your
capacity is not sufficient to analyze.
Such unnecessary analysis is unnecessary for your spiritual
journey. What you require is only the
correct advice about the correct spiritual path. Therefore, you have to recognize God through
such correct advice which is called as true spiritual knowledge. After recognition, you should not analyze the
other aspects of God. After giving
highest marks to the answer script, you should give the gold medal to the
writer. You should not stop the gold
medal since the student is smoking. You
have read the Bible and concluded that the Speaker of the Bible should be
God. The Author of the Bible might have
taken the wine of grapes or might have taken the non-vegetarian dish.
You may search for the reasons of such
specific behavior of the incarnation.
But your faith on Him as God should not be disturbed if you have not got
the answer in your analysis. You may
find out the reason for the smoking of gold medalist. But you should not keep the gold medal in
suspension till you find out the reason.
Whether you find out the reason or not the gold medalist is a gold
medalist. Therefore, it is the climax of the foolishness of the ignorance to
decide some person as God first and then believe his knowledge as the true
knowledge. You have to impartially
examine the knowledge of various preachers and the best selected knowledge must
lead you to its author as God. Such
God may belong to your caste or not, may
belong to your religion or not, may belong to your nation or not since God is
always universal and His preaching is also universal since He is the creator of
the entire humanity. Gita also says that
the Preacher of the true knowledge is God (Jnanitvaatmaiva….).
This means that the merit of the knowledge
alone should be the deciding factor in recognizing God.
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